Electronic cassette charger

• US 9,312,708 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2015
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikegame, Haruka
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIGGUSH, AARON C
• Application Number:
  US14/686,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20150222134A1
• Time in Patent Office: 363 Days
• Field of Search: 320/107, 320/113, 320/115
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/548 Remote control of the apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries

Abstract

A charger includes a loading chamber into which a battery pack is insertably/removably loaded. An insertion opening into which the battery pack is inserted is formed on an upper surface of the main body. The loading chamber is forwardly inclined to a front surface of the main body, and a bottom surface of the insertion opening is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction so that one end of the front surface side is located at a lower end and the other end of the back surface side is located at an upper end. A connecter for supplying power is disposed at the upper end side of the bottom surface. Even when the dust, rubbish or fluid entered from the insertion opening drops to the bottom surface, it flows down to the lower end side, so that less dirt adheres to the connecter.

Claims

1. An electronic cassette charger for charging a battery in a battery container comprising:

a main body containing a charge circuit;

a loading chamber formed in said main body so as to insertably/removably contain said battery container;

an insertion opening formed at an entrance of said loading chamber, for inserting said battery container;

a bottom surface of said loading chamber, which is inclined in a longitudinal direction thereof with respect to a horizontal direction so that a first end is located higher than a second end, wherein the bottom surface has an elongated shape, a first short edge of the elongated shape disposed at a first elevation over a horizontal reference plane, and a second short edge of the elongated shape disposed at a second elevation over the horizontal reference plane, the first and second elevations being different from each other with respect to the horizontal reference plane; and

a connecter disposed on said bottom surface with an interval from said second end, for connecting said battery to the charge circuit when said battery container is loaded into said loading chamber.

2. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein said second end of said bottom surface is positioned at front surface side of said main body and said first end of said bottom surface is positioned at back surface side of said main body.

3. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 2, wherein said loading chamber is inclined toward a front surface of said main body.

4. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 3, wherein said insertion opening is inclined in a same direction as said bottom surface.

5. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 4, wherein inclined angle of said insertion opening is almost same as that of said bottom surface.

6. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 4, wherein the inclined angle of said insertion opening is larger than that of said bottom surface.

7. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 3, wherein said loading chamber has inner wall surfaces disposed to face the front surface and back surface of said main body, inclined toward the front surface of said main body, and said front surface and back surface incline in a same direction as said inner wall surfaces.

8. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein a lower surface of said main body extends in an almost horizontal direction and a space between said lower surface and said bottom surface enlarges toward said first end from said second end.

9. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein said insertion opening is a long and thin opening extending in a front-back direction of said main body.

10. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 9, wherein said battery container is a flat plate whose plane shape is almost rectangle, and said loading chamber is a slot.

11. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein said battery container is a battery pack detachably attached to said electronic cassette.

12. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein said battery container is said electronic cassette incorporating said battery.

13. An electronic cassette charger according to claim 1, wherein the first short edge and the second short edge correspond to shortest edge dimensions of the battery container.